摘要:
A nucleic acid analog comprising a polymeric strand which includes a sequence of ligands bound to a backbone made up of linked backbone moieties, which analog is capable of hybridization to a nucleic acid of complementary sequence, further comprising a chelating moiety capable of binding at least one metal ion by chelation.
摘要:
A nucleic acid analogue of the PNA type is provided with a kemptide motif and radio-labelled by phosphorylation at a service residue in said motif to provide a radio-labelled nucleic acid analogue having a specific activity in excess of 1 x 105 cpm/νg 32P.
摘要:
A selected region of a nucleic acid is protected from attack by nuclease by complexing to the nucleic acid a nucleic acid analogue of the PNA type. The surviving sequence may be detected in an assay, optionally after amplification. A PCR reaction may be sterilised and its product assayed by protecting a characterising region of the product by PNA hybridisation followed by nuclease degradation of unprotected nucleic acid.
摘要:
In a process for detecting nucleic acids, a probe P is bonded to a partial sequence S contained in the nucleic acid, producing a bonded product B1, the nucleic acid is decomposed into a bonded product B2 by generating a partial nucleic acid F of defined length and the bonded product B2 or the partial nucleic acid F is detected based on its mass. This process is particularly suitable for detecting in parallel nucleic acids having different sequences.
摘要:
An assay procedure to quantify the amount of starting template in a nucleic acid amplification procedure such as PCR involves trying the amplification in the presence of varying amounts of a nucleic acid analogue which in sufficient quantity will inhibit said amplification procedure by selective interaction with a nucleic acid species present, e.g. a PNA as described in WO-02-20703. The amount of template is given by the amount of nucleic acid analogue critical to cause failure of said amplification procedure.
摘要:
A nucleic acid analog comprising a polymeric strand which includes a sequence of ligands bound to a backbone made up of linked backbone moieties, which analog is capable of hybridization to a nucleic acid of complementary sequence, further comprising a chelating moiety capable of binding at least one metal ion by chelation.